If even a small percentage of those soft wooly critters can eat wolves, the wolves think twice. Wolves aren't used to being eaten by sheep, even in small numbers. Perhaps they change their diet to squirrels and cats.

It's a deterrent, perhaps a clause added by a once proud people that refused to be subjects. The tools aren't as important as the will. It would seem over the past 30 years, the majority of our nation is more than happy to be subjects. Rather than take care of ourselves, our families, and our communities, the majority look to the King for security and bread.

The NRA gun hysteria is merely another smoke-screen diversion to keep the wanna-be macho gun owners / right wing tea-bagger kooks playing with their genitalia while their masters , the republic party , screw em in the ass by lowering the richest 2% earners taxes and and cutting back on social security and other paid into social safety net systems...Keep chasing your tails you ignorant Jackasses and keep focused on gun rights while the shifty republicans steal your retirement and any other rights handed to you by the democratic voters....Heee Haww...

And for places with 500,000+, the rates move around a bit. Some larger places have higher murder rates. Others don't. Of course these numbers do not control for income, education and other things which matter.

For non-fatal violence - see table 6. http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv11.pdf. I would not use FBI for non-fatal as it only has crime reported to the police. The table here has crime reported and not reported to the police. The difference in total violence and serious violence is simple assault.

In some cases, urban has higher rates. In some rural has higher than suburban. It seems to depend on the type of crime to me. And it depends on the way areas are categorized.

Nicaragua isn't a good example because both sides didn't start with the guns that they fought it out with. Other 'interested parties' chipped in for the side they were rooting for and many of the weapons were from out of state. When I was working down there I was staying with some guys involved in the conflict and they were telling me what it was like. Same with Afghanistan - once the fighting got started weapons were imported. Syria is another example. Iran has been helping them out, this is why the current regime hasn't already put down the uprising.

Nobody has an example of a civil war where nobody else got involved in the mess?

I remember standing up and telling him to shut his mouth and quit stroking himself, that the class was about concealed carry laws and not about how cool he thought HE was.

You're an interesting guy Norton. Got an angry streak and a touch of self-loathing or something like it going on though. I dig it though because you're honest.

Why would you have stood up and said anything in someone else's class? Told him to "shut his mouth" because you didn't like his analogy you took as 'ego stroking'? Really?... That must have been awkward for everyone.

Wrong again Rong. The UK was saved by the US MILITARY... part of the US GOVERNMENT... the same organization many gun nuts insist they need puny little assault weapons to defend against. Meanwhile, lax regulations allow those puny little assault weapons to fall into the wrong hands and kill dozens of children or other innocent people in minutes... well before any responsible concealed carrier can react.